Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs
One Hundred Stories for One Hundred Years
A History of Wood's Homes as Told by the People Who Lived and Worked There
- Publisher
- Brush Education
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2013
- Category
- Personal Memoirs, Post-Confederation (1867-)
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781550595383
- Publish Date
- Dec 2013
- List Price
- $11.99
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781550595475
- Publish Date
- Dec 2013
- List Price
- $29.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550595352
- Publish Date
- Dec 2013
- List Price
- $18.95
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Description
For 100 years, Wood’s Homes has offered a lifeline to children and their families who have nowhere else to turn. A multiservice, non-profit children’s mental health organization based in Calgary, Wood’s Homes serves communities throughout Alberta and in the Northwest Territories. In honour of the 100th anniversary of Wood’s Homes in 2014, this collection of 100 stories celebrates the deep and lasting impact the organization has had on those who have lived and worked there. The stories — sometimes quirky, sometimes raw, but always coming from the heart — also reveal the dramatic changes in the needs of young people and their communities over the last century.
About the author
Clem Martini is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and screenwriter with over thirty plays and nine books of fiction and non-fiction to his credit, including Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness, winner of the Calgary Book Award, and his most recent anthology of plays, Martini with a Twist. He has served on the boards of numerous writing organizations including the Alberta Playwrights Network, the Playwrights Guild of Canada, and the Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs. His texts on playwriting, The Blunt Playwright and The Greek Playwright, are used in universities and colleges across the country. He is currently a professor in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary.
Editorial Reviews
Collectively [these stories] paint a vivid picture of an organization that has lived up to its mandate of never giving up on children abandoned elsewhere.
Alberta Views magazine
